By Whitney Ballard There Are No ‘Right’ Decisions About School This Year—Please Just Be Kind
Parents are feeling some type of way right now. If we send our kids to school, we’re “selfish.” If we…
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By Amanda Turner I Was the Perfect Mom—Then I Had Kids
To the mom I judged for insisting on providing the preschool I worked at with organic milk for her child,…
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By Katelyn Brown These Are the Good Days
One day, mama. One day your house will be silent. One day the house will be spotless. One day you…
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By Kayci Villarreal I Failed as a Mom Today and I May Fail Again Tomorrow, But I’ll Keep on Trying
I yelled today when my son couldn’t find his sweater. I was running late for work (again), and he was just…
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By Shannon Meurer Our Kids Deserve To Know Their Best is Enough
Not long ago my fifth-grader came home from school with the mid-quarter update of his grades. It’s a surreal parenting…
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By Jenny Rapson The NEOWISE Comet is Visible Without a Telescope For the Next 3 Nights—Don’t Miss It!
Who's looking for some free, out-of-this-world family fun during a pandemic? You, probably, if you're like most moms. This one…
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By Dana Moss I Don’t Know What I Did To Deserve You
I don’t know what I did to deserve you. I’ll never know what I did to be chosen as your…
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By Joanna Owusu I’m Done Apologizing For My Sensitive Kids
On his first day of kindergarten, my oldest son teared up, overwhelmed by the crowd of kids and parents in…
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By Kathryn Bartling I Hope My Kids Live Numberless
Last fall, my 87-year-old grandmother moved into the nursing home. And as my last living grandparent, it has hit me…
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By Shannon Armenis We Raise Children, Not Lawns
Each spring, for years, my husband would throw grass seed in our backyard. As soon as the soft green spikes…
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By Melanie Rickus Quarantine Gave Me Baby Fever
A few weeks into the stay-at-home order, I came across a tweet that said, “If there's a baby boom in…
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By Molly England Sometimes I Wish I’d Been a Working Mom
Next autumn, all three of my babies will be in school—all day, every day. Mindless people ask, “What will you…
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